• William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, the son of a legal agent for the 1st Earl of Lonsdale and a customs official.
  • William Wordsworth, English poet and worshipper of nature and simplicity, was born in the Lake District.
  • One of England’s most beloved poets and a pioneer of Romanticism, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843.
  • William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland, the second of five children of John Wordsworth, who worked as an agent and rent collector for Sir...
  • William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in...
  • When we look at the life of William Wordsworth, we can see a very good example of this. He was born in Cockermouth, in the county of Cumbria, England, in 1770.
  • When William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Coleridge in 1798, they launched the Romantic Age of English Literature.
  • William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom, to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was one of England’s greatest poets. His work is said to mark the beginning of the Romantic period in English literature.
  • In 1802 William Wordsworth was again married to his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson ,in the following year Mary give birth to the first of five children.